If you want to negotiate you need to be on equal terms, like proving you are equally strong. 

Wha t if you don't feel like spending too mush on beeing strong? The strategy is waiting for the opponent to exhaust himself. 

Th at is how china and russia handle their political opponents, they wait until they exhaust themselves in prior wars. 
How many wars has the US to lead, before you call it WWIII? 
Or maybe the next WW ist WWZ, a worldwar to slaughter what meets the condition of a stupid and brainless zombie, normal people how they are pictured by some elitists. 

mary9999 wrote in #8
unfortuna tely diplomacy is a thing of the past, it's no longer relevant in the world we live in, the only thing that america (and all it's allies) understands is the survival of the strongest. issues will only be sorted out the old fashioned way, kill or be killed.
----- Sad but true. The next few years are going to make World Wars I and II look like minor disagreements. And I don't say that to disparage the immense suffering that people went through then, I say it because there's a big difference between then and now. Back then the conscripts who went to war never fully lost their humanity. They never truly hated the other side, who they knew full well were likely just the same as them, scared at being pitched into something they never really understood. Things are different now. Even on the ground troops are generally spiteful, malicious vindictive creatures (this is true of wider humanity as well, I suppose). To them every kill is something to be celebrated, to be gloated over, just a sport. Just a real life video game.

unfortunately diplomacy is a thing of the past, it's no longer relevant in the world we live in, the only thing that america (and all it's allies) understands is the survival of the strongest. issues will only be sorted out the old fashioned way, kill or be killed.